The world, explained for Australia.
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Economic sanctions are one of the most common tools of foreign policy, yet their track record is more complicated than headlines suggest.
By The Daily World · 31 May 2026
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Some of the most consequential contests between nations are fought with culture, education, and ideas rather than weapons.
By The Daily World · 27 May 2026
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Modern agriculture feeds eight billion people partly because of synthetic fertilisers, and the supply chain behind them is more fragile than most people realise.
By The Daily World · 25 May 2026
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From Sydney to London to Toronto, housing has become unaffordable for a generation, and the forces driving that are structural, not accidental.
By The Daily World · 23 May 2026
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The World Bank lends billions of dollars a year to developing countries, but its role is more complicated and more contested than its name suggests.
By The Daily World · 21 May 2026
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Africa is on course to be home to more than a quarter of the world's population by mid-century, a shift that will reshape global economics, politics, and migration.
By The Daily World · 19 May 2026
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Mental health conditions affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, yet the resources devoted to treating them remain dramatically insufficient in most countries.
By The Daily World · 17 May 2026
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Two industries that move the world are also among its hardest sectors to clean up, and the clock is running.
By The Daily World · 15 May 2026
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Governments, criminal gangs and corporations are locked in a relentless contest over digital networks, and the stakes keep rising.
By The Daily World · 13 May 2026
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Solar and wind power are now the cheapest sources of new electricity on earth, but the grid they plug into was built for a different era.
By The Daily World · 11 May 2026
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Five countries share spy secrets more freely than any other group on earth, and Australia is one of them.
By The Daily World · 9 May 2026
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Hydrogen is the universe's most abundant element and could be a zero-carbon fuel, but closing the gap between that promise and commercial reality has proved far harder than expected.
By The Daily World · 5 May 2026
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No single country makes a chip from scratch, and the decades-long process of specialisation that created that interdependence is now a source of strategic anxiety.
By The Daily World · 3 May 2026
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Behind every home insurance premium is a global system of risk transfer that is under growing strain as natural disasters become more frequent and severe.
By The Daily World · 1 May 2026
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When a country runs out of foreign currency and cannot pay its debts, the IMF is usually the lender of last resort, and its conditions shape the lives of millions.
By The Daily World · 29 April 2026
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The Commonwealth of Nations is not a remnant of empire, but understanding what it actually does requires looking past the ceremonial surface.
By The Daily World · 27 April 2026
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Bacteria are evolving faster than the pipeline of new drugs can keep pace, and the consequences for routine surgery and infection treatment are already visible.
By The Daily World · 25 April 2026
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Forests absorb carbon, regulate rainfall, and sustain biodiversity, but they sit on land that economies have always wanted for something else.
By The Daily World · 23 April 2026
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Bitcoin made headlines, but the more consequential story is how governments and central banks are now designing their own digital currencies in response.
By The Daily World · 21 April 2026
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A small island produces the chips that run almost every advanced device on Earth, making it the most consequential single point of failure in the global technology supply chain.
By The Daily World · 19 April 2026
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Decades of predictions about the end of the oil age have not arrived, and understanding why reveals the true scale of the energy transition ahead.
By The Daily World · 17 April 2026
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The global convention of pricing oil in US dollars has shaped geopolitics, exchange rates, and the power of the American economy for more than half a century.
By The Daily World · 13 April 2026
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Australia is one of the world's leading beef exporters, and the complex web of trade rules, biosecurity regimes, and competing suppliers that governs the global meat trade has direct consequences for Australian farmers.
By The Daily World · 11 April 2026
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Central banks are not ordinary banks, and understanding what they actually control explains why their decisions about interest rates reach into every mortgage, business loan, and superannuation balance.
By The Daily World · 9 April 2026